WeLearn

 Terms of service 

Article 1. Definitions

  • These Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms") are for the WeLearn Community service (hereinafter referred to as "this service") provided on the Internet by WeLearn Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "our company"). ) and the rights and obligations between our company and members (defined in Article 2 of this Article). Community owners (members who have established a community within the Service in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article 2 (Membership); hereinafter referred to as "owners") and community members (communities established by community owners) (hereinafter referred to as "users") shall use this service in accordance with these Terms. This agreement applies to all relationships related to the use of this service between members and our company.
  • A member is a person who has become a member of the Service in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article 2 (Membership), and includes users and owners.
  • Articles, images, videos and other information data posted, published or otherwise transmitted or received by members using this service are referred to as "contents".

Article 2. Membership

  • To become a member of this service, it is necessary to agree to comply with the Terms and apply for membership registration by providing the prescribed information in the input form provided by this service. You must provide truthful information when entering. The same person cannot register for multiple memberships.
  • If our company approves the application, the member registration procedure will be completed at the time when the Applicant is notified of the acceptance, and the Applicant will acquire the status of a Member from this point.
  • If there is any change in the information provided by the member under paragraph 1, the member shall notify our company of the change without delay by the method specified by our company.
  • Members must respond to requests from our company for the disclosure of identification documents and other information related to membership qualifications.
  • This service can be used by those who meet all of the following conditions.
    • (1) Those who can prepare an Internet connection environment at their own responsibility and expense.
    • (2) Those who agree to and continue to comply with these Terms of Use.
    • (3) A person who is legally responsible for the conclusion of a contract.
    • (4) Members shall use this service at their own responsibility and shall be fully responsible for all actions taken using this service and the results thereof.

Article 3. Disapproval of Membership

  • If the Applicant falls under any of the reasons set forth below, our company may refuse membership registration or re-registration, and shall not be obliged to disclose any reasons for such refusal.
    • (1) In the event that all or part of the information provided to this service at the time of application (hereinafter referred to as "registration information") is false, erroneous, or omitted.
    • (2) If the applicant is already a members.
    • (3) If it is found that the Membership has been suspended in the past, or that it falls under the reason for suspension.
    • (4) If the Applicant is a minor, an adult ward, a person under curatorship, or a person under assistance, and has not obtained the consent of a legal representative, guardian, curator, or assistant.
    • (5) Being an anti-social force, etc. (meaning an organized crime group, a member of an organized crime group, a right-wing organization, an anti-social force, or any other person equivalent thereto; the same shall apply hereinafter), or being a member of an anti-social force, etc. through funding or other means; If the Company determines that the Company has some kind of interaction or involvement with anti-social forces, etc., such as cooperating with or participating in maintenance, operation, or management.
    • (6) When our company determines that there is a high possibility of causing trouble to other members.
    • (7) When our company determines that there is a high possibility of engaging in an act that falls under the prohibited items specified by our company.
    • (8) In addition, when our company determines that it is inappropriate as a member.
  • Even if a member suffers damage due to measures taken by our company, our company will not compensate for any damages.

Article 4. Service provision

  • A member can join a community and use the services provided within the community as a member of the community.
  • Services offered within the participating communities include, for example: However, the following services are examples, and the content of the services provided varies depending on the participating communities and the owners and users who belong to the communities.
    • a. Watching videos and other content linked to participating communities.
    • b. View group chats of participating communities.
    • c. Posting in Group Chats of Participating Communities.
  • Regardless of whether or not the member joins the community, the member shall pay the monthly membership fee from the month and day when the member registration procedure is completed. In addition, even if you join in the middle of the month, the membership fee for the month of joining will not be discounted for the remaining days of the month.
  • Even if the member is not participating in any communities, due to reasons such as the deletion or not having joined a community based on these terms, the member shall continue to pay the monthly membership fee.
  • A member can apply to our company in accordance with the method prescribed by our company and obtain approval from our company to establish a new community as an owner.
  • Our company may request members who apply to launch a community to provide identification documents or information and documents deemed necessary by our company.
  • Based on our internal regulations, etc., we have the discretion and authority to decide whether to approve or disapprove community applications, and even if we refuse approval, we are not obligated to disclose the reason.

Article 5. Prohibited Acts

  • When using the Service, Members shall not engage in any act that falls under any of the following items or any act that our company determines to fall under any of the items below.
    • (1) Unauthorized use of member IDs or passwords and the Service, or acts to cause the use thereof.
    • (2) Impersonating a third party.
    • (3) Acts of registering false or inaccurate information with our company.
    • (4) Acts of using this service for the purpose of meeting, dating, romance, or sexual intercourse, and acts of transmitting related content.
    • (5) Acts of using this service for sales activities, solicitations, and preparations for multi-level marketing transactions and network businesses (Amway, Nu Skin, etc.), and acts of transmitting related content.
    • (6) Acts of spamming and sending or posting related content.
    • (7) Acts of harassing other members or other acts that cause disadvantage, damage, or discomfort to other members.
    • (8) Acts of sending content that falls under the following or that our company determines to fall under the following through this service to our company or other members of this service.
      • Content containing excessively violent or cruel language
      • Content that includes expressions that infringe on the intellectual property rights, portrait rights, honor, privacy, etc. of our company, other members of this service, or other third parties
      • Content containing excessively obscene expressions
      • Fraudulent or potentially fraudulent expressions
      • Content containing expressions that promote discrimination
      • Content that contains expressions that encourage suicide or self-harm
      • Content that contains expressions that promote the inappropriate use of drugs
      • Content that seeks to spread information to third parties, such as chain mail
      • Content that includes expressions that induce minors to commit criminal acts or acts that may be criminal acts
      • Stock recommendation or other content that violates the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
      • Content that contains computer viruses or other harmful computer programs
      • Content that violates or may violate the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices, etc., and the Medical Act and other advertising laws
      • Other content that includes expressions that are anti-social, offensive to public order and morals, or offensive to others
      • Information including links to sites where the contents of the preceding items are posted
    • (9) Acts of disclosing to the general public on the Internet (including SNS sites and apps) all or part of the content provided by other members or our company through this service.
    • (10) Acts that infringe on the intellectual property rights, portrait rights, privacy rights, honor, or other rights or interests of our company, other members, or other third parties.
    • (11) Acts that attempt to transfer online game accounts, characters, items, currency, virtual currency, etc.
    • (12) Acts of direct or indirect use in the advertisement of information products that our company deems to be disadvantageous to others, such as multi-level marketing.
    • (13) Acts that impose an excessive load on the network or system of this service.
    • (14) Reverse engineering or other analysis or unauthorized access to software or other systems provided by our company.
    • (15) Acts that may interfere with the operation of this service regardless of the means.
    • (16) Acts of delaying the fulfillment of payment obligations (including support money).
    • (17) Acts that violate laws or public order and morals, or acts related to criminal acts.
    • (18) Encourage other members to withdraw from this service and use other services that compete with this service.
    • (19) Acts of requesting money, etc. from other members in connection with the use of this service or our company within this service.

Article 6. Deregistration, etc.

  • If the member falls under any of the following items, our company may delete or hide the content without prior notice or demand, or temporarily suspend the use of this service by the member. You can suspend or cancel your registration as a member. In addition, our company may (i) invalidate the member's membership in the community if the member is a user, or (ii) invalidate the community created by the owner if the member is the owner, or You can take measures such as deleting or excluding from search results. In addition, the community owned by the member whose registration has been canceled may be taken over by another member, or may be disestablished or deleted depending on the circumstances.
    • (1) Violation of any provision of these Terms.
    • (2) When it turns out that there is a false fact in the registered items.
    • (3) Payment to our company (including all payments for this service usage fee, support money, etc.) has been delayed five times in a row, or payment to our company has been delayed and our company has requested the Member to make payment two or more times.
    • (4) Suspension of payment or inability to pay, or when there is a petition for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, civil rehabilitation proceedings, corporate reorganization proceedings, special liquidation, or similar proceedings.
    • (5) When there is no response for more than [30 days] to inquiries or other communications from our company requesting an answer.
    • (6) Death.
    • (7) When it becomes clear that there is an illegal, inappropriate, or other problem with the financial institution account registered by the member, as pointed out by the financial institution.
    • (8) If our company determines that the person is an anti-social force, etc., or is involved in any interaction or involvement with anti-social forces, etc., such as cooperating or being involved in the maintenance, operation or management of anti-social forces, etc., through funding or other means.
    • (9) In addition, when our company determines that the use of this service or the continuation of registration as a member is not appropriate.
  • If a member's registration is canceled for any of the reasons in the preceding paragraph, the member shall immediately pay the usage fee equivalent to the last day of the month in which the date of cancellation belongs to our company.
  • A member who falls under any of the items in paragraph 1 of this article and has been suspended from using this service will continue to use the initially selected rate plan as long as he/she has membership qualification even during the suspension period shall pay the fee.
  • Even if our company suspects that a member has violated the provisions of paragraph 1, our company may temporarily suspend the member's use of this service until the fact is confirmed.
  • If a community is not established or deleted due to the measures in (ii) stipulated in paragraph 1 of this article, members who previously belonged to the community will lose their affiliation with the community and will not be able to use the community. Furthermore, even if a member who has lost affiliation to a community due to the measures in (ii) does not participate in a new community and the number of communities in which that member participates becomes 0, a monthly charge will still be incurred.
  • Our company shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the member as a result of our company taking the measures stipulated in paragraph 1.

Article 7. Handling of Personal Information

 

In addition to complying with the Personal Information Protection Act and other related laws and regulations, our company will strive to protect the personal information of our members with the utmost care in accordance with [our privacy policy and] the items stipulated below.

  • Acquisition of personal information
    Acquisition of personal information When collecting personal information, our company will inform you of the purpose of use etc. in advance regarding the handling of personal information, and will collect it only when you have obtained consent. We do not collect information indirectly from third parties or through unauthorized means.
  • Management of personal information
    Our company will establish a system to protect and manage personal information, establish rules for the proper acquisition of personal information, and comply with them.
  • Provision of personal information
    Personal information will not be provided or disclosed to third parties except when the consent of the individual is obtained in advance.

Article 8. Notice

  • Members agree that information regarding this service, notices regarding system maintenance, and other communications or notices from our company to the owner will be delivered by e-mail or other methods specified by our company.
  • In the event that our company communicates or gives notice to the e-mail address or other contact information included in the registered items, the said contact or notice shall be deemed to have reached the Member at the time it should have normally reached.

Article 9. Suspension of Service

  • Our company may suspend or suspend the provision of all or part of this service without prior notice to the Member if it determines that any of the following reasons exist.
    • (1) When performing maintenance inspections or updating computer systems related to this service.
    • (2) When it becomes difficult to provide this service due to force majeure such as earthquakes, lightning strikes, fires, power outages, or natural disasters.
    • (3) When the computer or communication line is stopped due to failure, erroneous operation, excessive concentration of access, unauthorized access, hacking, etc.
    • (4) In addition, when our company determines that it is difficult to provide this service.
  • Our company shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the member due to the measures taken by our company under this section, except in the case of intentional or negligence on the part of our company.

Article 10. Attribution of Rights

  • All intellectual property rights related to our website and this service belong to our company or those who have granted licenses to our company (including members who sent content), and the license to use this service based on this agreement does not imply a license to use any intellectual property rights of us or our licensors in relation to our website or services.
  • The member represents and warrants to our company that he or she has the legal rights to post or otherwise transmit the content, and that the content does not infringe the rights of a third party.
  • Members grant to our company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, display and perform the content. In extremely rare cases, we may remove personally identifiable information from content and use it for our advertising, sales, etc.
  • The member agrees not to exercise the author's moral rights against our company and those who have inherited or have been granted rights from our company.

Article 11. Disclaimer

  • Our company shall ensure that this service conforms to the specific purpose of the Member, has the expected function, commercial value, accuracy and usefulness, and that the use of this service by the Member is subject to laws and regulations or industry groups applicable to the Member. We make no guarantees, express or implied, regarding compliance with internal rules, continuous use, or no defects.
  • In relation to this service, the member shall be responsible for handling and resolving any troubles that occur between members, including between the owner and the user, or between the member and a third party. We will not take any responsibility.
  • Our company does not guarantee that members will not be damaged by harmful programs such as computer viruses when using this service.
  • Our company does not guarantee the operation of any equipment or software used by members when using this service.
  • Our company shall not bear any communication costs incurred when Members use this service.
  • Our company shall not be held responsible for the completeness, accuracy, certainty, usefulness, etc. of the content of this service or information such as advertisements obtained by Members through this service.
  • Members shall use this service based on their own responsibility, and our company shall not be held responsible for any actions or omissions of members in this service.
  • Our company shall not be liable for any damages incurred by the member in connection with this service exceeding the amount of consideration paid by the member to our company in the past [12 months], and shall not be liable for incidental damages, indirect damages, We are not responsible for compensation for special damages, future damages, or lost profits.

Article 12. Retention of confidentiality

Members shall treat as confidential and shall not provide or disclose to third parties any non-public information disclosed by our company to members in connection with this service that they are required to treat as confidential, except with the prior written consent of our company.

Article 13. Deletion Authority

  • If we deem the content to be inappropriate, we may take measures such as deleting all or part of the relevant content or changing the scope of publication, regardless of whether or not the posted content is illegal or in breach of the Terms and Conditions.
  • Members can freely comment on the group chat of the participating community. However, if our company independently determines that the content violates these Terms of Use, our company may delete the content including the member's comments. Our company shall not be liable for damages or any other liability for any damages incurred by the member due to the deletion of the member's comments or content.

Article 14. Management of login information

  • Members shall manage their user IDs and passwords for this service at their own responsibility.
  • The member shall not allow a third party to use the password, or lend, transfer, sell, or pledge the password.
  • Members shall be obliged to change their passwords periodically.
  • Members shall be responsible for damages caused by insufficient management of passwords or user IDs by members, errors in use, use by third parties, etc., and our company shall bear no responsibility.

Article 15. Changes to these Terms

  • Our company may, at its own discretion, change the content of this service or terminate the provision of this service.
  • We may change these Terms of Use at our discretion. Unless otherwise specified by our company, the revised Terms of Use shall take effect from the time they are displayed on the Site.
  • If a member uses this service after receiving a notice of modification of these Terms of Use or after the date of modification of these Terms of Use, it shall be deemed that he or she has agreed to the contents of the modification without objection.

Article 16. Refund

Members acknowledge that they cannot receive refunds of fees paid to the Company.

Article 17. Withdrawal

  • A member can cancel (withdraw from) the member registration of our company by following the prescribed procedure.
  • Even if the member withdraws in the middle of the month, the member shall pay the full amount of the usage fee for the month in which the date of withdrawal belongs, and discounts based on daily calculation shall not be applied.
  • If there is a community that was owned by a member who withdrew, that community may be handed over to another member, or may be dissolved or deleted depending on the circumstances.

Article 18. Expiration date

  • The terms shall be from the date of application for membership registration based on Article 2 to the date the member loses qualification as a member of this service (disapproval of membership, cancellation of membership registration, withdrawal, etc., reason for loss of qualification ), or until the date on which the provision/operation of all of this service is discontinued, shall remain valid between our company and the member or the applicant for membership registration.
  • Article 2 (Membership), Clause 6 (Cancellation of registration, etc.), Article 8 (Notice), Article 9 (Suspension of Service), Article 10 (Attribution of Rights), Article 11 (Disclaimer) of this agreement , Article 12 (Retention of confidentiality), Article 13 (Deletion Authority), Article 15 (Changes to these Terms), Article 16 (Refund), Article 21 (Governing Law and Court of Jurisdiction) shall remain in effect even after the expiration of the period of validity.

Article 19. Assignment, etc. of Status in Terms

  • Members may not assign, transfer, set collateral, or otherwise dispose of their status under these Terms or their rights or obligations under these Terms to a third party without our company's prior written consent.
  • If our company transfers the business related to this service to another company, the transferee of the business transfer will transfer the status under this agreement, the rights and obligations based on this agreement, member registration items and other customer information to the transferee of the business. , and the member shall agree in advance in this section to such transfer. In addition, the business transfer stipulated in this section shall include not only ordinary business transfer but also company splits and other cases where business is transferred.

Article 20. Possibility of separation

Even if any provision or part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable under the Consumer Contract Act or other laws and regulations, the remaining provisions and parts of these Terms are invalid or unenforceable. The remainder of the provisions so determined shall continue in full force and effect.

Article 21. Governing Law and Court of Jurisdiction

  • The governing law of this agreement shall be the law of Japan.
  • The Tokyo District Court shall be the exclusive jurisdiction court of first instance for all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or this service.
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